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This article analyses the dissemination and commodification of Sahrawi music by the Spanish record label Nubenegra. The text explains the musical and social differences of the Sahrawi music in two distinct contexts: in the refugee camps of Tindouf (Algeria)¬, as a local and transnational experience in which national values are affirmed on the political struggle for the independence of Western Sahara; and in Madrid, as a commercial and global experience in which Nubenegra seeks to promote Sahrawi music culture. The social and cultural analysis of both social contexts is deployed to explain how Sahrawi music culture grows in an asymmetric form and with different goals (ideological or commercial).